{"id":22258,"date":"2017-11-27T13:48:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T12:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22258"},"modified":"2017-11-27T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T12:48:40","slug":"the-rules-for-being-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=22258","title":{"rendered":"The rules for being human"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. You will receive a body.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You may like it or hate it but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. You will learn lessons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>You\u2019re enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant or stupid.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. There are no mistakes, only lessons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Growth is a process of trial and error: experimentation. The \u201cfailed\u201d experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately \u201cworks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. A lesson is repeated until learned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Learning lessons does not end.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 <\/strong>There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. \u201cThere\u201d is no better than \u201chere.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When your \u201cthere\u201d has become a \u201chere\u201d you will simply obtain anther \u201cthere\u201d that will, again look better than \u201chere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Others are merely mirrors of you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate in yourself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. What you make of your life is up to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. Your answers lie inside you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The answers to life\u2019s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10. You will forget all this!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it but it will be yours for the entire period this time around. 2. You will learn lessons. \u00a0 \u00a0 You\u2019re enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22259,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22258\/revisions\/22259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}